Providing support for printing is one of the common hard tasks during application development.

The .NET Framework provides excellent support for printing documents but not provide support for direct print of controls content.

Sofgroup .Net Print Objects is a fast, small and lightweight .Net library that provide nice and accurate print and preview for most common used .Net controls, not provided directly from Visual Studio 2005.

Supported .Net controls:

·         CheckedListBox

·         DataGrid

·         DataGridView

·         Forms

·         Images

·         ListBox

·         ListView

·         TreeView

·         RichTextBox

Support feautures:

·         Display Print Preview window as standard dialog

·         Display Print Preview window as MDI child window

·         Display printer setup dialog

·         Display page setup dialog

·         Full control of window state, size and position of preview dialog

·         Full control of page margins

·         Multilanguage support of any text displayed

·         Customize any print header text aspect (font, color and location)

·         Customize any print footer text aspect (font, color and location)

·         Customize page numbers text aspect (font, color and location)

Few lines of code are required to print any supported control as sample below:

Sample code to print preview a ListView control:

         oPrint = New Softgroup.PrintPreview(LicenseName,LicenseUser,LicenseKey)

         oPrint.Control = ListView1

         oPrint.DocumentPreviewDialog()

Sample code to print direct a DataGridView control:

         oPrint = New Softgroup.PrintPreview(LicenseName,LicenseUser,LicenseKey)

         oPrint.Control = DataGridView1

         oPrint.DocumentPrint()

Same code can be used to print all other supported controls.

Prior to running Setup to install the Softgroup .Net Print Objects, you must already have the .NET Framework 2.0 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 installed on the computer.

Softgroup .Net Print Objects is provided as single setup package that contains all required files and documentation.

See FAQ list for more details.

Softgroup .Net Print Objects has exhaustive documentation supplied with installation where every aspect of using the product is covered in details. See NetPrint.chm.

You can also download the documentation from our site.

If you have a question regarding Softgroup .Net Print Objects, take a look through list of Frequently Asked Questions or use support page to obtain information about contacts of Softgroup .Net Print Objects support team.